#luna mabelpod

[liebredeaconito]

She's got big sharp teeth and big fat hips //

Is the girl that leaves you to rot, she says I am real and you are not

Luna Thorne, a witch

Let her be feral and a monster and insane,

[julesdap]

I was the light by which the dark defined itself. I was the seed he wrapped his arms around. I gave him his shape, and so he gave me mine, and without it—what am I? What am I? What am I, Veratrine?

—mabel, episode 32: temporal snake

[dykelittlemy]

veraluna 🌙🍂

i haven’t drawn them in agesss i feel like i need to get back to drawing them right lol

[boygirlover]

mabel week 1: home

happy thursday! or as i like to call it. tuesday :)

[winteringart]

Sometimes you scrape and sink so low/I'm shocked at what you're capable of/And if this is the coronation, I ain't feeling the love 

- Mabel Week Day 5 - Yew Drawn for @andromerot ‘s prompt list celebrating @mabelpodcast! I really wanted to do a No Children lyric here but tomorrow is the King and Luna, so I needed to save it. Can we get an f in chat.

- Image ID: A copic marker illustration of Sally Martin and Luna Thorn. Sally Martin is an old naked white woman with white hair and faint blood running up her face. She is upside down in the top left of the composition, with her arms spread out and over Luna Thorn, an equally naked Mexican woman with branches of yew coming out from her body and cracks like you might see in a broken mirror or window spiderwebbing out from her right cheek, which is facing towards the audience, and on her left breast. Luna’s ears are pointed and her teeth are sharpened stained with presumably Sally’s blood. Luna’s hair is silver but mixed with dark brown. They lay on a black void. End ID. 

[ekaterinaroskova]

[audio transcript under the cut!!]

hello everyone i cannot stop thinking about this. the fact that it’s literally not brought up ever. the fact that this scene means mabel “actual person” martin had to record themself mocking their own voice reading a monologue their wife wrote. mabelpodcast is peak comedy. 

AUDIO TRANSCRIPT:

ANNA: ...Yes?

LUNA: Do you intend to rule justly, according to the laws and strictures that govern this space, the prism of flawed glass between polar waves of light?

MABEL, MUTTERING TO HERSELF: [MOCKING] Ehh, polar waves of light--

ANNA: Yes.

LUNA: Manners! Then you must--

[equalseleventhirds]

hi!!! would you be willing to talk about Anna and Mabel being each other’s monsters? My favorite trope is girl and monster (that is, a normal woman and the monster she’s adopted or fallen in love with or what have you) and lately I’ve been thinking hard about how both girls fit both parts of that trope... i would love your thoughts if you’d want to share!!

ohhh man oh MAN um um ok there’s a LOT to talk about here but let’s see what i've got

so first of all, the way in which both of them are simultaneously girl and monster in like, the most obvious ways (not to do with each other, just BEING): two human girls taken under the hill and turned into half-faerie creatures who cannot blend in among humans anymore, and now they are literally ruling over a faerie kingdom, like, that shit fucks. also, they are ‘monsters’ when they talk about how neither of them ‘acted like people’ (it’s a metaphor), but they also fall into the ‘girl in a fairytale’ role by being taken away and trapped; it’s a very ‘princess stolen by a dragon’ sort of thing.

(and yet, even when trapped into what would be helplessness, mabel herself rejects her role as ariadne and instead claims to be the minotaur, the spider in the web, etc etc, putting herself into the role of monstrousness when the story archetype she SHOULD be fitting is the maiden in the tower) (something something even the ‘monsters’ are trapped, something luna and vera and aconite and the king are all trapped in their own ways in spite of being also and definitely monstrous, and how fucking much did it rock that the big bad king was just as trapped in his role under the hill actually like how good was that shit)

actually the way even monsters are trapped may contribute to the whole girl-loves-monster dynamic (as opposed to ‘girl trapped by monster��� dynamic, altho like, obvs the faeries are ALSO trapping the girls, but that is both complicated and Different)

and that was like, the things i’d thought of before, bcos i’ve spent a lot of time thinking about them as human-and-monster and how much i love the subversion of what both of those roles are, but then you said ‘being each other’s monsters’ and that hit me like a goddamn TRUCK, how’s it fucking feel to galaxy brain that hard!!!

SO: how is mabel anna’s monster?

from the very beginning, we have mabel as a myth to anna, a figure in a story. and then that myth becomes someone anna resents - for never calling even tho she knows she’s listening, for seemingly abandoning sally so anna has to be the one taking care of her... that whole bit where she’s like ‘i bet mabel doesn’t have to bury dead animals’ is like! ok she was projecting her own frustration and grief, but. yeah.

and then she finally meets mabel, and yes she absolutely sees her as the helpless damsel in distress she has to rescue, but thomas says it, doesn’t he? by meeting mabel, anna has ‘gotten caught up in (the martin family’s) mess.’ mabel (being lured in by her, being caught by her metaphorically/emotionally) is now the reason anna went missing for days and had to handle all the fallout from that, mabel is the reason she’s still in the house... mabel is the reason she’s going to die.

(isn’t that monstrous? to speak to someone for, what, a minute, an afternoon, and destroy their life, doom them to die?)

and when they are under the hill together, mabel continues to be strange to anna, speaks to luna as if she is faerie and anna is not, talks of rules and rituals that make anna feel alienated and clumsy and stupid (although she is not, we know she is not, and mabel knows it too)

then later we learn that mabel has been anna’s monster for so much longer than we realize. from back in nursing school, when she had visions of her and it was too much, terrifying and overwhelming to the point that she broke the connection. from long before anna had even heard her name, mabel was the monster she was running away from

(until she decides to run to her, instead, completing the ‘girl fears monster then discovers no actually she loves the monster’ arc)

now: how is anna mabel’s monster?

i could go through chronologically like i just with anna but actually no, bcos the very first thing that sticks out to me is that, for a significant chunk of the podcast, anna is able to literally control mabel. she doesn’t want to, and she tries not to use it, but she can and a couple of times she even does. and mabel reacts! poorly! obviously!! (what does it mean that ‘the mouth of god’ is the thing about anna that makes her a monster to mabel fjskdlfjs mabelpod said ‘fuck christianity’ thx. they did also say ‘sainthood but gay’ tho which also. valid.)

speaking of mabel’s autonomy and also sainthood (or, more specifically, heroics), how about that time anna tore mabel out from under the hill (where she was trapped, yes, but was also cared for, in a way, by the king; was also powerful and did not have to make herself small; was also away from sally and her cruelty and the house) and stuck in in the house she so loathed, in the human world she could no longer comprehend or love or fit herself into

(and, god, i do so love how mabel said that heroically rescuing the damsel in distress is not a good thing if you have not asked; she is not a prize, an object for your self-sacrificial satisfaction. i love how anna apologized for that, even tho she had good intentions, bcos she did not ask first. i also love how that comes at a time when they are learning that for anna to be king, mabel must be sacrifice and bound to her, and how mabel says, no in this case i will bind myself willingly, and only if you will have me, and this is what will give you the power of a king of monsters, and it is what i choose. how’s that for a girl choosing to love her monster! incredible!!)

BUT going back to anna-as-monster bcos there IS more: is it such a coincidence that veratrine was able to shake mabel so much, by calling her terrible things, by claiming that anna did not love her? is it such a coincidence that anna could scare her that much, not even being there, just the idea of her, the story of her? (monsters and stories about them again! hm!! what a fucking theme i love it)

and of course, how terrified mabel was when she finally met anna. ‘this is the girl who will eat my heart’, right? even before she knew anna would save her, she just saw her and was petrified by love. and you know what, what a fucking theme THAT is, that love is terrifying, love is monstrous, what you love will hurt you and maybe kill you and still you love it and cannot stop (you talked about ‘girl falls in love with monster’ but also mabelpod says ‘girl falls in love and in doing so makes her beloved her monster’ and fjsdkFDJSL wow! wow!!! and then they keep loving anyway!!!! like ok it didn’t work out for juniper but hot damn is it working for mabel and anna!)

[luna-thorne]

It would be very cool of Mabelpod to give Luna the ibis

[liebredeaconito]

“Polilla”

2/5 piece for Letters From Fairy Hill 04, a @mabelpodcast cast fanzine at @lettersfromfairyhill,  organized by @andromerot , edited by her and @ekaterinaroskova​

[Image Description: Luna from Mabel podcast. She has a light blue skin with darker cheeks with star-like freckles. Almost the same shade of navy blue as her cheeks is her wavy hair. She wears a gold-ish crown with lily flowers. This picture is only of her head. She has purple eyeshadow and wears a high neck light blouse. Her mouth is coverd by a “Luna-moth”. End ID.] @mabelpod-described

[dykelittlemy]

some mabelpod sketches / doodles :-)

[dykelittlemy]

You have been weeping, too, twiglet. What has your heart so broken?

Mabel, Episode 32: Temporal Snake

[dykelittlemy]

the moon and her twiglet 😛

(aka my bbgirls veratrine and luna)

[dykelittlemy]

LUNA: Hear me: I ripped a vine from the wall of the hill to fashion your spine; I picked feathered champignons from the mud to serve as your red lungs; I gathered twigs of larch and yew for the many twisting paths of your veins and arteries. Your eyes were acorns, your tongue a strip of moss, your throat a circle of bone worn hollow. Into the baby's breath of your hair I wove a strand of hers, but still: there is more of me in you than there is Anna Limon, for blood presides over every birth, even yours. I cut my wrist and bled into your mouth and watched you writhe and form and grasp and finally, finally, breathe.

-Mabel Episode 28, Matryoshka

[dykelittlemy]

back to my veraluna posting 😌

[dykelittlemy]

quick drawing from the other night bc these two rotted my brain for some reason

[julesdap]

i am a creature of my own creation, and that makes me god. [...] i birthed myself anew, despite your hand against me.

— mabel episode 25: chimera